Situational Awareness System (SAS)

Situational Awareness System (SAS) is a sample architecture space, which was previously developed in collaboration with a government agency, for the deployment of personnel in emergency response scenarios and consists of two subsystems: Headquarters and Search & Rescue. The Headquarters subsystem manages several Search & Rescue subsystems. The Search & Rescue subsystem is a mobile application that runs on ruggedized smartphones and tablets, and used by emergency crew members. The original subsystem was relatively rudimentary, providing support merely for sharing data with Headquarters. The recent proliferation of mobile technologies, standards (e.g., Open Handset Alliance), and platforms (e.g., Android) presented an opportunity to improve this part of the system. Therefore, a project for clean slate re-architecting of the subsystem was ensued. The new application was intended to allow the crew to share and obtain an assessment of the situation in real-time (e.g., interactive overlay on maps), coordinate with one another (e.g., send reports, chat, and share video streams), and engage with the Headquarters (e.g., receive commands).

 

First time reviewers of the tool are highly recommended to download the sample SAS architecture space XML files from here (1st iteration) and here (2nd iteration) and then open them in the tool.

 

The below snapshots depict parts of the coefficients, candidates, candidates analysis and critical decisions analysis pages of the SAS sample architecture space:

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